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[Nov. 13th, 2009|08:26 pm] |
Chili Cheese Cauliflower Fries - made with "Peas of Mind" Baked Cauliflower Fries, Lightlife Smart Chili and Daiya "Italian" cheese. MMMMMM. comfort food
PS you can read about the Cauliflower fries here: http://www.peasofmind.com/products/veggiewedgies.php. They also have broccoli fries, apple fries and carrot fries. I've tried Cauliflower and Broccoli so far and like the Cauliflower ones the best because they're the most potato-like (and I love me some fries). |
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| How long do whole soybeans take to cook? |
[Nov. 14th, 2009|02:05 pm] |
I've seen suggestions from 30 minutes to 2.5 hours, or the generic 'when done' which doesn't help when I'm trying to time a meal.
What do you do?
Googling is giving me gazillions of responses but limiting it to whole soybeans is proving unsuccessful. So I'm asking the wise vegan brains here. :)
(Usually, I'd sprout them, and then they take only 10 minutes at most to cook. That saves time, gas and carbon outputs, but with summer hitting where I live, my soybean sprouts are going off.)
Thanks. :) |
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| Maple Glazed Walnut Cinnamon Rolls |
[Nov. 13th, 2009|08:40 pm] |
I first posted my recipe for vegan cinnamon rolls here back in February 2005 and now with a few changes I've turned them into yummy maple glazed walnut cinnamon rolls!
( Recipe ) |
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| vegan egg nog |
[Nov. 13th, 2009|05:28 pm] |
I posted awhile ago asking where to buy vegan egg nog in Ontario and I just wanted to let any Ontario/Canadian people out there that Loblaws/The real canadian superstore has Holly Nog! My city is small and the Loblaws here has it, so I'd assume any others do. GOOD LUCK.
Also, I just got "The New Moosewood Cookbook". What are your favourite recipes from there if you have it? |
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[Nov. 13th, 2009|10:10 am] |
faux chicken with veggies
I like to bake too!
veggie burger and salad |
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| Molasses Cookies |
[Nov. 13th, 2009|01:11 am] |
These are SO GOOD. I'm definetely going to make these for the holidays and roll them in red and green sugar. The only thing I have to add is that I had to bake them a couple minutes longer. After 6 minutes, I pulled them out of the oven and flattened them a bit with my fingers because they were still in ball-form, and I wanted them flatter. Then I baked them another 2 minutes or so.
Here's a link to the recipe (I love this blog!): http://hellyeahitsvegan.com/?p=710
( recipe and an ingredient photo ) |
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| Whole Foods Bakery recipes? |
[Nov. 13th, 2009|12:32 am] |
I would do just about anything for Whole Foods' recipes for vegan muffins and cookies.
Does anyone have the recipes, or something similar??
I would probably send you money if you had it. Seriously, I want those recipes so badly!!! |
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| Skeleton Structure of Sexual Assault Support During Mass Mobilizations |
[Nov. 13th, 2009|01:51 am] |
Skeleton Structure of Sexual Assault Support During Mass Mobilizations:
Some Suggestions
CALLOUT FOR SUBMISSIONS!
We are looking for more practical experience, stories from the frontlines, criticism, resources, and suggestions! We hope to turn this into a zine complete with example consent policies, handouts, guides for giving support, and stories.
DEADLINE: January 1st 2010.
E-mail to saworkingroup(a)gmail.com
Introduction
We believe that sexual assault support should be and can be incorporated into mass mobilization organizing, the same way that medical, legal, and housing logistics are now taken into account. Below we present an outline of possibilities for organizers of mass mobilizations. The following suggestions should give any group of activists who take on the organizing role for a large-scale protest or other mass event the tools they need to find experienced survivor advocates, set up a structure for them to work within, and offer resources to support survivors of sexual assault. We feel that with a clear outline of actions and structures that make mass demos more welcoming to survivors of assault, even event organizers who have no experience doing support work, can create spaces that challenge patriarchy and truly value the participation of survivors.
We have tried to come up with a broad menu of suggestions that organizers can use, change, or ignore as best fits their particular context. Successful support structures need not include everything listed below. Invariably, many people will have different ideas and disagree with some of ours. Diversity and discussion should be embraced. If you have something you would like to add to this ever-changing, growing document, please let us know.
In solidarity,
The Pittsburgh G20 Resistance Project Ad-hoc Sexual Assault Response Working Group
November 2009
saworkingroup(a)gmail.com
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| New Years Meal Plan |
[Nov. 12th, 2009|05:20 pm] |
I know this is a long long way away but I have just been told my fiances parents will be spending New Years with us... likely the whole week. They are Russian, and very traditional, his mom always raises hell with me about not allowing any animal foods into my body is going to kill me and thus thinks my fiances decision to become vegetarian is a disaster. Luckily I only see her once a year as we live in different provinces, and I usually stay at her house. This is the first time his family will be staying with us for a prolonged amount of time and I will be expected to make every dish. I need ideas to convince my new family that being Vegan is not only wonderful and delicious, but that I am not starving their son into an early death.
So far I am making a vegetable Borscht, faux ricotta Lasagna, and some type of cabbage roles (help appreciated on this one). His mother is allergic to mushrooms, I am not a big fan of fake meats... I like real food.
Please help me survive my New Years. |
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| Winter Breakfast |
[Nov. 12th, 2009|06:54 pm] |
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I am looking for a good recipe for a winter breakfast that will be quick and easy before i got to work. Last year I would make a bowl of oatmeal (just the regular quaker non-instant stuff) with water and then put in some brown sugar (to give it some flavor), flax seeds, cranberries and a huge spoonful of peanut butter. Basically, plenty of protein and my omegas for the day. But is there something a little healthier than oatmeal out there, that I wouldn't have to put sugar in? Or just any kind of fun ideas. I don't have tons of time in the mornings, but since it snows a lot here, warm is always good, and something that can get me through my morning of seven one-year-olds without feeling overly-full or exhausted by ten.
Thanks! |
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| Overripe bananas. Lots of em. |
[Nov. 12th, 2009|02:26 pm] |
My housemates and I just dumpstered the most ridiculous amount of overripe bananas.
I made pancakes this morning and have three loaves of banana bread in the oven.
While we could eat eighteen loaves, I'm pretty sure we shouldn't.
Any other suggestions?
Preferably not smoothies or milkshakes. Something I can share with the house. |
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| Feminism, Anarchism, and intersectionality. |
[Nov. 12th, 2009|11:53 am] |
A friend of mine passed this essay on to me and I thought it was pretty awesome!
Refusing to Wait: Anarchism and Intersectionality
by Deric Shannon (WSA/NEFAC) and J. Rogue (WSA/Common Action)
Anarchism can learn a lot from the feminist movement. In many respects it already has. Anarcha-feminists have developed analyses of patriarchy that link it to the state form. We have learned from the slogan that "the personal is political" (e.g. men who espouse equality between all genders should treat the women in their lives with dignity and respect). We have learned that no revolutionary project can be complete while men systematically dominate and exploit women; that socialism is a rather empty goal--even if it is "stateless"--if men's domination of women is left in tact.
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| Baltimore? |
[Nov. 11th, 2009|11:50 pm] |
Hi, hoping for a little info... I may be relocating to Baltimore, MD. I have never been there and know very little about it (visiting soon I hope), nor do I have any contacts there.
Can anyone say anything about anarchist/leftist/activist goings-on in Baltimore, Baltimore radical history, present-day Baltimore, its neighborhoods, communities, problems, potential, etc...
(and if you feel like it, things and places to see and do, places to live, transportation, anything general about the city that someone who is posting in this forum might want to know...)
links, etc. welcome.
Thanks and please forgive the slightly off-topic post.. |
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| Calling ATLANTA |
[Nov. 11th, 2009|11:13 pm] |
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If you do Food Not Bombs in Atlanta or are otherwise involved in radical activism in Atlanta, please e-mail Orlando Food Not Bombs--orlandofnb@orlandofoodnotbombs.org. We will e-mail you back with details of a project we are working on. Thanks in advance. |
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| Arkmar falafel |
[Nov. 11th, 2009|06:05 pm] |
A lovely recipe a friend of mine made up. He's a apocalyptic fantasy writer and Arkmar is a country in one of his latest stories. This recipe is all his and so credit goes to him.
( Arkmar falafel ) |
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| De-centralize the State! |
[Nov. 11th, 2009|04:19 am] |
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No one can be expected to see it all. No one can be expected to see how far we’ve come in such a short amount of time, but one can be expected to see the direction we are going in. Wealthy white male privilege is being challenged. We’ve been challenging it for years, decades, centuries… and one should expect we will continue to challenge it. Now, what does this mean?
Grab your remote control and switch on your television. Most likely the news shows you see will be about wealthy white male rule. If not, then about wealthy white rule. If not, then about wealthy rule. Or maybe they’ll avoid the topic altogether, which just tells you something about the nature of the channel you’re watching. We’re challenging each and every property of that description — wealth, race, and sex — and replacing it with the idea that neither of those deserve the kind of privilege afforded it by our society today. This is a thoroughly dangerous idea, for the group of individuals which fit that description have been in the driver’s seat of our civilization for as long as any of us can remember. They’ve responded violently in order to suppress any dissent. High-power water hoses and white hoods come to mind. But those actions have only backfired. It has only served to whittle away at their legitimacy in the public mind. So they have to pretend that they’re not in control. That’s how they maintain it now.
But we’re smarter than that. They try to drug us with soma; plant seeds of escapism in our minds. It’s tantamount to a burglar waving a chew toy to distract a guard dog whose hair is standing up on his back and whose teeth and gums are showing. We’re not going to let their entertainment distract us. We’re not going to let them convince us they’re not still in charge. It’s not hard to see that they are.
So, the challenge now is to detect their chew toys, and to re-focus our eyes on the burglar in the house. What is he doing now? Waging wars for oil, natural gas pipelines and poppies? You bet. Cheering the fastest drop in “labor costs” since 1948? You bet. The veins of the poor are still open and the rich are still sucking every ounce of blood they can from them. They pit the poor against the poor for the benefit of the rich through concepts like terrorism. What did they call the Cuban or Brazilian peasants who revolted against enslavement and sugar monoculture? Terrorists or communists, I suppose. Then they commenced to hunt them down and decapitate them, or cut pregnant women’s bellies open, or skewer their children on their bayonets only to return to the wealthy white male/s who had ordered it with bags of severed ears as proof that they did what they were told. They followed the orders. No doubt that soldier had a hard time making ends meet himself.
Enough. We need to take our eyes off the things that are keeping us distracted and finally recognize the truly radical nature of the doctrine that all humans are created equal and that political legitimacy is truly dependent upon the consent of the governed. And manufactured consent is no consent at all.
To see the arch of history is to see a continual progression toward the de-centralization of illegitimate power. Whatever takes us even further in this direction should be seen as a positive development. As a writer for the upcoming political documentary Dear America: From Patriotism to Participation, I see the arch of history like never before. Illegitimate authority has taken some hard hits to the face thus far. What we have is a woozy opponent. We shouldn’t let his erratic dancing in the ring fool us into thinking he’s still the all-powerful opponent he was when we began this fight. And we must snap out of the hypnosis he has put us in and realize that we are — this generation is — still locked in a fight with this entity. Our tag team partners (the generations before us) threw punches that were hard and true. A few more blows, and he could be on the mat, down for the count, forever.
The National Initiative for Democracy represents the hardest, most accurate and true punch we can possibly throw at this point. A law-making populace — rather than a vulnerable group of his law-making buddies — neutralizes what flimsy power of his remains.
That is why I beg that you see things in the larger perspective, see the National Initiative as it relates to the rest of history, overcome the mentality that benefits them most, and contribute to the making of an explanatory documentary about the National Initiative for Democracy. Whether or not we pass it into law or not doesn’t matter so much. This documentary seeks to explain to people the arch of history — that we are still battling this illegitimate authority — and that’s something that could overflow into all other areas of life, and possibly spur the greatest mass movement in the history of humanity; the final overthrow of wealthy white male privilege.
We’re going to do this fucking thing. I want to hit him so hard, but I need you. Please, help us in this effort. Go to our website and there you can read more about this documentary and contribute. Freedom is defined as “participation in power”. So, ask yourself, are you free? Wake up, slave. Escape. |
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